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Duplication of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome critical region causes neurodevelopmental delay.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Hannes Femke, Drozniewska Malgorzata, Vermeesch Joris R, Haus Olga
Abstract excerpt
Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome (WHS) is caused by deletions on chromosome 4p and is clinically well defined. Genotype-phenotype correlations of patients with WHS point to a critical locus to be responsible for the main characteristics of this disorder. Submicroscopic duplications of this region, however, are not known. Here we report a patient with an interstitial 560 kb duplication overlapping this critical locus. The...
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